The much anticipated self funded $120m production Megalopolis from Francis Ford Coppola was first seen in this years Cannes and this Autumn will see its worldwide release. The film has already attracted a fair bit of controversy and recently the director has talked about the cancelled casting in Megalopolis with a number of notable actors saying, “What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,”…….. “The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another. There were people who are arch conservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film together. That was interesting, I thought.”
That cancelled casting includes Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman who have all attracted attention. LaBeouf is facing legal action by former girlfriend and singer-songwriter FKA Twigs (aka Tahliah Debrett Barnett) over allegations of physical and sexual abuse with the singer claiming that her relationship with the actor was the “worst thing I’ve ever been through in the whole of my life,” adding that he kept a loaded firearm by their bed and made her watch documentaries of murdered women. His trial is set for 14th October. 14.
Hoffman was accused of sexual harassment of a 17-year-old intern on the set of 1985’s Death of a Salesman TV film and Voight is known for his far-right beliefs and support of Donald Trump that continues to be a highly divisive issue with in the tense relationship with daughter Angelina Jolie.
Megalopolis stars Adam Driver as an ambitious, future-facing architect Cesar Catilina who aims to turn a glittering city into a utopia, with the help of his inventive new material called megalon and a cast of less-than-morally-upright characters. The sprawling narrative, which Coppola modeled after a Roman epic and the roots of which have been gestating for four decades.
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